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abstractOBJECTIVES: Azithromycin is used to modulate exuberant inflammatory response in patients with cystic fibrosis (CF). The purpose of this study was to determine the association between long-term use of azithromycin in CF patients and change over time in macrolide susceptibility of Staphylococc

Abstract:

abstractBACKGROUND: Staphylococcus aureus nasal carriage is a major risk factor
for nosocomial S. aureus infection. Studies show that intranasal mupirocin
can prevent nosocomial surgical site infections. No data are available on
the efficacy of mupirocin in nonsurgical patients. OB

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abstractNonchlamydial, nongonococcal urethritis (NCNGU) is suggested to be a
sexually transmitted disease in men. NCNGU patients were compared to
control subjects with regard to the presence of potentially infectious
bacteria in the first void urine. Patients' pre- and
post-a

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abstractNonbullous impetigo is a common skin infection in children and is
frequently caused by Staphylococcus aureus. Staphylococcal toxins and
especially exfoliative toxin A are known mediators of bullous impetigo in
children. It is not known whether this is also true for nonbullo

Abstract:

textabstractPulsed-field gel electrophoresis typing was performed on a retrospective
set of 129 Moraxella catarrhalis isolates obtained over a 20 month period
from 70 children admitted to, or presenting at, the Erasmus University
Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. The mean

Abstract:

abstractIn common with a proportion of patients with invasive pulmonary
aspergillosis (IPA), the efficacy of AmBisome treatment regimens in our
rat model remains suboptimal. To investigate whether this might be the
result of initially low antifungal activity of amphotericin B at th